Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture)
by Chap Clark
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Author: Chap ClarkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-01
ISBN: 0801027322
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Baker Book House
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- ISBN13: 9780801027321
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Book Review: Chap Clark Emphasizes the Vital Priority for Youth Ministries to Focus on Building Relationships with Young People
Summary: 5 Stars
Having been a involved in youth ministry both in the United States and over 20 other countries, I believe Chap Clark has hit the mark on the priority for youth ministries to focus their effort on building relationships with young people more than building programs. In Chap Clark's book, Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers, he sites some very important contemporary research on adolescents. He claims that teenagers, particularly in western cultures, are growing up with an increasing sense of abandonment and hurt. As a result, he suggests that any youth ministry approach today would do well to focus on three goals: 1) Develop nurturing environments for young people; 2) Provide stable and secure relationships where young people truly feel loved; and 3) Help young people experience authentic and intimate relationships with loving adults. Theodore Roosevelt coined a phrase that most youth workers know is true among young people today: "People don't care what you know unless they know that you care." Jesus seemed to operate in his relationships this way. And Chap Clark masterfully points novice and experienced youth workers to keep focusing on the basics: keep introducing young people to Jesus through nurturing, stable, and authentic relationships. Thanks Chap for encouraging youth pastors and volunteers to "keep the main thing the main thing"! Effective youth leaders today will be encouraged by reading this book as they will gain practical wisdom and ideas on how to introduce kids to the person of Jesus Christ through long-term, caring, and winsome relationships with caring adults. I am the product of one of those kinds of relationships with a volunteer youth leader who invested in me when I was a high school kid. The relational approach Clark suggests works in every culture, every school, and every neighborhood.
Ashley Denton (Author, Christian Outdoor Leadership: Theology, Theory, and Practice)
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Summary of Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture)
What do teenagers really think about adults? If you think you know the answer, you may be in for a surprise. According to Chap Clark, today's adolescents have largely been abandoned by adults and left to fend for themselves in an uncertain world. As a result, teens have created their own world to serve as a shield against uncaring adults.Based on six months of participant-observer research at a California public school, this book offers a somewhat troubling but insightful snapshot of adolescent life. It will surprise and enlighten parents, youth workers, counselors, pastors, and all who want to better understand the hearts and minds of America's adolescents.
If parents, educators, and youth workers were to read only one book about helping adolescence?this would be the one. Chap Clark managed to get inside the world of US teenagers and reveal the depths of angst, pressure and loneliness they feel. Hurt is a illuminates the under layers of teen culture, the places where adolescents are most honest and vulnerable, only to discover that today?s youth are indeed a tribe apart?and it is the adults who have isolated them.
Most of Clark?s research took place in Crescenta Valley High School in north Los Angeles County. One might wonder how a middle-aged dad could get inside the heads of so many teens from so many walks of life. He did this by doing what most adults are unwilling to do?spending time with teens and asking questions, by showing a genuine curiosity in their world and a willingness to hear their answers without judgment. The results are riveting.
Ultimately this is an indictment of our increasingly adult-centric society that is more invested in adult interests than the individual needs of our youth. By the time adolescents enter high school, most have been subjected to at least a decade of adult-driven agendas. He slams coaches who are so invested in winning at youth sports that they leave mediocre athletes on the bench or pull them off the team. He points to the once playful dance classes that somehow morph into intensive dance training and regional competitions. Or the high school junior who faces a nightly four-to-five hour marathon of homework only to rise at 7 a.m. for morning band practice before AP calculus. We reward youth for their adult-pleasing achievements, failing to consider the price of isolation, stress and fear of failing that this generates.
Clark (the author of Daughters & Dads 1576830489 and From Father to Son 1576832945) concludes the book with solid recommendations for turning this tide. Unfortunately, he often defends his research and recommendations, as if a critical academic was looking over his shoulder. The truth is this book belongs less to the world of academics and more appropriately in the hands of anyone who lives with or directly works with teenagers. --Gail Hudson
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